, India, and the Cape, coloured and mounted; Nash's Mansions
of England in the Olden Time; Gruner's Specimens of Ornamental Art; Musee
Royal (picked proofs before the letters); Richardson's Studies from Old
English Mansions; and a great number of Books of Prints by eminent Artists
will be sold in this Sale. Catalogues (1s. each, returnable to Purchasers)
will be forwarded to gentlemen sending their Address.
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This Evening, at 6. First Class English Engravings.--By SOUTHGATE &
BARRETT, at their Rooms, 22. Fleet Street, THIS EVENING, Dec. 15, and
following Evenings, at 6,
CHOICE ENGRAVINGS, including all the best Productions of Sir Edwin
Landseer, R.A.; comprising the Stag at Bay (both large and small), the
Cover Hack, the Drive, Three Sporting Dogs, Return from the Warren, the
Mothers, complete Sets of his Etchings, and others; Turner's Dover and
Hastings; Ansdell's Just Caught; the Halt, and the Combat; Webster's
Rubber; Etty's Judgment of Paris; Harvey's Bowlers, and First Reading of
the Bible in Old St. Paul's; Murillo's Holy Family; the Rainbow, by
Constable; Mated and Checkmated, the Duet, and other graceful Compositions
by Frank Stone; Going With and against the Stream, after Jenkins; and
numerous others. All in the finest possible states.
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PRIVATELY PRINTED BOOKS, SOLD BY
JOHN RUSSELL SMITH,
36. SOHO SQUARE, LONDON.
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These Works are printed in quarto, uniform with the Club-Books, and the
series is now completed. Their value chiefly consists in the rarity and
curiosity of the pieces selected, the notes being very few in number. The
impression of each work is most strictly limited.
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I.
MORTE ARTHURE: The Alliterative Romance of the Death of King Arthur; now
first printed, from a Manuscript in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral.
Seventy-five Copies printed. 5l.
*** A very curious Romance, full of allusions interesting to the
Antiquary and Philologist. It contains nearly eight thousand lines.
II.
THE CASTLE OF LOVE: A Poem, by ROBERT GROSTESTE, Bishop of Lincoln; now
first printed from inedited MSS. of the Fourteenth Century. One Hundred
Copies printed. 15s.
*** This is a religious poetical Romance, unknown to Warton. Its
poetical merits are beyond its age.
III.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO EAR
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